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Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Act 1954

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63Manner and time of appeal

(1)Application to have a case stated shall be made at the time when judgment is given, or at any time within five days thereafter, and shall be signed by the appellant or his solicitor, and either written on the complaint or lodged with the clerk of court, and where the latter course is adopted the clerk of court shall enter in the record of the proceedings the date when the application was lodged, and shall thereupon intimate the appeal to the respondent.

(2)Where such an application has been made by the person convicted, and the judge by whom he was convicted dies before signing the case or is precluded by illness or other cause from so doing, it shall be competent for the convicted person to present a bill of suspension to the High Court and to bring under the review of that Court any matter which might have been brought under review by stated case.

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